GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| niggle | trifle |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| flowery | of, relating to, or resembling flowers |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |